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In this book the author has amplified and explained at greater length many ideas presented in an earlier volume, The Way of All Women.
The central theme of this interesting volume is the ancient worship of the Moon Goddess, and its evolution through successive civilizations and religious formulations down to those of the present day.
The first chapter opens with an attack upon the scientific orientation of the past century, for its studious neglect of subjective factors, and for its attempt to exclude them as misleading in all sorts of investigative procedures.
The next four chapters are devoted to an historical account of the development of Moon Worship, with a detailed explanation of the reasons why primitive man attributed to the Moon characteristically feminine endowments, and of how with the coming of Sun Worship the Moon God was replaced by the Moon Goddess.
Chapters six and seven are a description of the worship of Ishtar, of Isis and Osiris, and of the myths connected therewith. Chapter eight carries the story into the Græco-Roman period, and includes a comprehensive account of the significance of various elements in the prescribed rituals. Chapters nine and ten are devoted to a rather thorough-going account of the symbols associated with Moon Worship.
The remainder of the book aims to show how the ideas symbolized in these myths and religious observances are still valid today as an aid to the understanding of woman's psychology and of many of the problems that arise in relationships between the sexes. The need for replacing unconsciously motivated attitudes, based on a striving for power, by attitudes of a more philosophical and impersonal character is repeatedly stressed, the text for the lesson being drawn from the initiation rites in several of the ancient religions.
The closing chapter, entitled Immortality and Inspiration,